parquetry

He ran a finger along the smooth parquetry worked into the wooden bench's high back.

Parquetry is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect.

The floor is the finest parquetry in oak, walnut and ebony.

Not only that, but it can assemble any custom design - say a logo or a child's name - in parquetry.

And she made a tattoo with her gilded heels on the gleaming parquetry of the floor.

The floors are laid in intricate patterns of pale and dark wood parquetry.

The carpentry was solid, and the parquetry picture positively hypnotic.

I forced my mind away from that, searching out certain elegant designs in the parquetry flooring.

The floor is parquetry, made of jarrah and silver ash woods.

They can be embellished with gold leaf finish, bronze or parquetry inlaid.

The original concrete floors were replaced with parquetry.

But still by their spacing the doors said that these were not poor quarters inside, and the wall itself was inset with parquetry.

The temple has a Neoclassical interior, with the parquetry floors as the only aspect left of the original construction.

The decoration of the room is formed by a parquetry floor and wood ceilings and baseboards.

She was descending into a region crisscrossed by shallow ridges, a parquetry of planes and pits in the ice.

The Morlock's feet, bare save for a coat of hair, padded on the hall's parquetry floor.

In the interior, the coffered ceiling was traditional Japanese-style, while the floor was parquetry.

(The use of curved and natural shapes constitutes marquetry rather than parquetry.)

A noted local handicraft is parquetry.

The mall's interior contained dark parquetry floors, tinted glass, modern lighting, and three large fountains.

He scratched at the flaking skin, reached into the hidden cabinet in his parquetry desk and pulled out a brown glass bottle.

The space, with extremely tall ceilings, parquetry floors and marble-paneled walls, was a perfect setting for French antiques.

Sightseers walk on runners that span splendid parquetry along routes indicated by velvet ropes.

Today you neglected to dust the relics; you neither waxed nor polished the parquetry.